Taliban sparks fear

Naveed and wifeEthnic Council’s Afghanistani community development officer, Mr Naveed is acutely aware his family wasn’t the only one sick with worry. He tells the takeover of Kabul was one of the “darkest and blackest” days in his birth country’s history. Many of Shepparton’s Afghani community are constantly seeking information about family back home.

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Beware of Census Scams

Beware of Census ScamsScammers have been reported making contact with residents over the phone and asking for personal information on behalf of the ABS or an ABS Census Verification Department. The scam includes providing an official Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) contact number to make the call seem more legitimate. Beware of scams, read about how they pretend to be the Census.

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Anti-racism message in art

Anti-racism message in artUsing traditional Indigenous arts to break down cultural barriers and tackle racism in schools is the aim behind a new program due to start in Shepparton later this year. The new project Be Woke-Be Anti-Racist has been developed by the Mooroopna-based Point of Difference Studio using the skills and connections of newly appointed Indigenous community engagement co-ordinator and Yorta Yorta artist Tammy-Lee Atkinson.

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Volunteer Opportunity – Shepparton Art Museum

Shepparton Art Museum logoWant to help us open our doors this October? Join SAM’s Volunteer program! Shepparton Art Museum is looking for volunteers from the Multicultural community! SAM is partnering with St Paul’s African House and the Ethnic Council to build a group of multicultural Art Museum volunteers. SAM Volunteers create an impact at the Museum in a variety of different ways, including visitor services, cataloguing, and maintaining SAM’s library, providing guided tours to groups, as well as assisting with the facilitation of workshops, talks and other events. Applications close 19 of August!

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GV Health COVID-19 vaccine program expands

GV HealthGV Health is responsible for delivery of vaccines in Shepparton, Kyabram, Cobram, Mansfield, Seymour and Kilmore Health Services. Availability of vaccines for those aged 12-15 is given, and this includes indigenous children. Advice is also given about pregnant women and the vaccine.

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Venezuelan refugee Olympic boxer says he will be taken in by Uruguay

Refugee Olympic Team logoCARACAS, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Venezuelan boxer Eldric Sella, who represented the Refugee Olympic Team at the Tokyo Games, said on Tuesday he will move to Uruguay after being unable to return to Trinidad and Tobago, where he had been living.

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UNHCR says Thank You to the Refugee Olympic Team

UNHCR says Thank You to the Refugee Olympic Team

#EOR is an acronym of the French name ‘Equipe Olympique des Refugies’. Members of the Refugee Olympic Team wore the inscription EOR while they were competing. 29 individual competitors were chosen by the International Olympic Committee to represent the 82 million refugees around the world at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Here, the UNHCR, their host, says “thank you” to all these competitors.

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